Please do not lose hope, my friends, like our loved ones who have lost touch with the truth.

I will close by stating the obvious: We cannot be apathetic to what is happening around us. It is easy to feel hopeless and defeated. We cannot let those feelings of despair consume us. Hope is like the truth; it can only be grasped internally because it resides within you.

Her words echo a truth these days that many of us can agree upon. I hope you can see a similar truth in my words—that our anger and mourning come from the same thing: division.

Hannah Ardent said, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

Our strong feelings stem from the fact that we care. We are invested in the truth, which is only truly grasped by the individual, meaning our personal understanding of truth. Yet, many people today believe they know what is true for others, leading them to accept falsehoods as truths.

Perhaps the always being part of a historic moment became too much for Gen-Z, and they did not like the millennial liberal individualism solution bc they were burnt out.

I'm unaware of any books, but I have been fascinated with Mathurine de Vallois and exploring the role and life of medieval female jesters.